term benefits may not be manifest inmeasurable outcomes at all – how do we objectively measure the impact of a broader perspectiveor of a more informed global awareness on the professional development and career paths ofparticipating students?Bibliography1. Eisenberg, Solomon R., Murray, Jo-Ann, and DeWinter, Urbain, “Developing a Study Abroad Opportunity for Engineering Undergraduates.” Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Page 12.283.8 Engineering Education Annual Conference, session 3260, Nashville, TN, June 2003.2. Open Doors 2001 (http://opendoors.iienetwork.org/page/25081/), Institute of International Education.3
, 2005 and 2006 Page 12.216.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 An Integral Analytical-Numerical-Experimental Pedagogy for a System Dynamics and Control CourseAbstractAn integral analytical-numerical-experimental pedagogy was adopted to reform the teaching-learning method in a junior systems dynamics and control course in the Mechanical Engineeringprogram at The City College of New York. The main objective of the course reform is to helpstudents acquire knowledge and abilities necessary for the success in students’ futureprofessional careers (including graduate studies) and life-long learning
particularly well Page 12.1381.3understood. While many continue to believe it is simply a matter of curricular rigor, the researchevidence begins to provide a more comprehensive view of a fairly complex issue. In a landmarkcomprehensive study of student engagement, Astin5 suggests social communities, student-student interaction, and faculty-student interaction may have a stronger implication for studentsleaving than does academic rigor. In her studies, Sheila Tobias12 suggests that students oftenleave because of a mismatch in learning needs and instructional delivery. Seymour and Hewitt13,suggest career advising, limited communication, and faculty
understand the principles of leadership.Engineers will need to exhibit high ethical standards and a strong sense of professionalism, andthey need to be lifelong learners. The NAE also recognizes that engineers will need somethingthat cannot be described in a single word or phase but involves dynamism, agility, resilience, andflexibility.As for the second NAE report which focuses on preparing the future engineer for entry into theprofession, the first recommendation states that “The baccalaureate degree should be recognizedas the “pre-engineering” degree or “bachelor of arts” in engineering degree, depending on thecourse content and reflecting the career aspirations of the student.”The common theme and mutual support communicated through ASCE Policy
leaderstook charge of coordinating the assembly efforts of the other student volunteers, a responsibilitythat taxed their people- and materials-management skills. Installation of the solar assemblieswas conducted in the midst of an academic term, impressing upon the students the importance ofcreating a schedule and following it to enable successful completion of a project in a timelymanner. Part of an engineering education is to prepare students for their professional lives, andthe solar array project offered a hands-on approach for achieving that objective. Additionally,the student leaders found this project an opportunity to confirm their career choices to beengineers.Much of the leadership experience was gained through problems experienced
studentsregarded the course as extremely useful for their career. In addition, 86% of the studentsregarded the course as stimulating their interests in the subject matter and almost 90% agreedthey learned a great deal from this class. Teaching this class is a rewarding experience for the instructor, providing students with thecourse materials and enhancing their knowledge and experience in the area of design of thermalsystems. Wedekind and Kobus12 mentioned the need for an integration of all the design steps intoa cohesive learning experience and stated that Fluid and Thermal System Design course is thecourse where the students obtain the entire taxonomy of the design process. According toMueller13, the new elective course, Design and Optimization of
! I decidedthat if I could not come up with a major professional accomplishment from that year, thenperhaps it was time for a change. By the end of the subsequent year, I had left my job in industryfor a full-time teaching position.The lesson. It takes courage (and sometimes a little bloodshed) to acquire a new skill like story-telling. Also, sometimes it is life’s little events that have significant personal meaning and leadto significant life decisions (like career changes). Page 12.307.3Basics from Big Fish I “Story-telling is first for the benefit of the audience, and only a distant second, for
iscampus- or curriculum-based assessment. This paper does not address program educationalobjectives, which describe career and professional accomplishments of program alumni. Theformer usually requires different evaluation and assessment tools than the latter; although, someoverlap does exist. In addition, we will also refer to course objectives, which are not to beconfused with program educational objectives. Therefore, given this context and the imminent importance of using direct assessmentmethods, this paper provides a review of direct assessment measures. These methods include,but are not limited to, instructor end-of-course assessments, use of targeted assignments(assigned problems, exam questions, projects), capstone examinations
class to engineering students are basicallysimilar from school to school, which can be summarized as follows 3,5,6-9: • Providing students with skills necessary to begin a career in engineering discipline; • Ensuring that students have sufficient programming background for solving problems in engineering; • Introducing engineering applications in different disciplines by using structured programming; • Using tools for engineering analysis, calculation, and graphical display; • Understanding programming fundamentals, including the essence of object-oriented programming; • Opening the door for further study and specialization in computer science.The abilities that the
practice from widely disparate fields2.Many first year engineering students are undecided about which field of engineering appeals tothem and are unsure about what engineers do. Many have interests that go far beyondengineering and are eager to explore a wide range of options. PDI offers an attractivealternative. Students who choose PDI often have strong backgrounds in art, humanities anddesign along with strong preparation in math and science. PDI gives students of this kind aflexible engineering program that is responsive to societal needs and satisfies a broad range ofintellectual, practical and career interests3. Page
learning strategies trait is a welcomed one(Table 2), although it is disappointing that students did not develop in all lifelong learning orautonomous learner traits. It can be argued that adaptable learning strategies, along withapplying appropriate knowledge and skills, are more practiced and emphasized in mostengineering curricula than the other lifelong learning traits. The fact that the other four lifelonglearning traits showed no significant gains throughout a student’s academic career may indicatethat either these traits were well developed before students enter college or, sadly, they are notbeing developed during college.The fact that no significant differences were found for the students’ year-of-study for eithersubscale of the ALS is
Technological University. Additionally, he has six years of industrial experience as a Senior Engineer and 18 years of academic experience as a professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor. Foroudastan’s academic experience includes teaching at Tennessee Technological University and Middle Tennessee State University in the areas of civil engineering, me- chanical engineering, and engineering technology. He has actively advised undergraduate and graduate students, alumni, and minority students in academics and career guidance. Foroudastan has also served as Faculty Advisor for SAE, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Pre-engineering, ASME, Experimental Vehicles Program (EVP), and Tau Alpha Pi Honors Society. In
theirengineering career.""Maybe you could designate a certain period of time within the class meeting to experiments andhold one once a week or once every other week.""The use of experiments is good. It gives students a visual instead of watching a computerscreen. The only way to improve experiment use is to add more!""Use more experiments. Helps me to understand the concepts.""Some students can either be hands-on or visual learners. Use of experiments increases studentinteraction as well as the understanding of the material because there is physical proof of whatmay go on in a problem, instead of just taking it from a textbook and accepting it.""I think experiments are good for the course because they add variety to class time and activities,and students
Paper ID #5749Exporting US quality assurance models in professional programsDr. Russel C. Jones, World Expertise LLC Dr. Russel C. Jones is a private consultant, working through World Expertise LLC to offer services in education and quality assurance in the international arena. Prior to that, he had a long career in education: faculty member at MIT, department chair in civil engineering at Ohio State University, dean of engineering at University of Massachusetts, academic vice president at Boston University, president at University of Delaware, founding president at Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (Abu Dhabi
), the instructor wasable to set assignments and deadlines that were appropriate and realistic for the online students.In cases where courses are taught online only, it is important to be aware of an adequate scope ofcontent and timeframes that are reasonable for students. Particularly since it seems that onlinestudents more predominantly have added responsibilities, such as family and careers, that theyare dealing with.Based on the experiences of the instructor in developing and teaching the online section, andfeedback received from online students, the following recommendations are given: • Personalize content within the course so that students have a flavor of who you are as an instructor; this can be accomplished by being actively
high schoolmath teachers from the Dayton-Montgomery County in Ohio, who worked in local industries.The teachers worked with engineers, material scientists, marketing analysts, environmentalconsultants, and physicists. The key goal in this effort was to improve math education in the highschool. While the participants’ focus was on math education, they found that the internshipexperiences were even more valuable in that they helped these teachers adapt their teachingmethods to include more cooperative learning, open-ended problem solving, writing, andtechnology, to better prepare students for careers in business and industry3.The next work involved an NSF funded center whose mission was to strengthen and expandbiotechnology technician education
. Page 23.612.9This study is specifically tailored to the UTeachEngineering curriculum, but there are somegeneral lessons we learned that can be used to inform other programs. We believe this workprovides further evidence that K-12 engineering programs can raise student innovation such thatthey can take their knowledge and apply it more broadly and abstractly, like adaptive experts.However, student beliefs are “sticky” and are challenging to change significantly.AcknowledgmentsSupport for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation through theUTeachEngineering: Training Secondary Teachers to Deliver Design-Based EngineeringInstruction award (DUE-0831811) and the CAREER: Advancing Adaptive Expertise inEngineering Education award
Engineering Education, 2013 From BIM to Collaboration: A Proposed Integrated Construction curriculumAbstractAdopting Building Information Modeling (BIM) Education as an essential component ofConstruction Management is challenging due to inconsistencies arising from various skill levels,conceptual understanding of processes and existing methods of teaching. However, competencein BIM opens new avenues for research and in most cases improves the marketability of studentsas they prepare for careers in construction and engineering. A BIM environment assurescollaboration through participation. While the benefits are significant, the hurdles faced insuccessfully implementing the BIM concepts and processes are
for redesign of labs: 1) activate students’ self motivation 2) scaffold labs to develop component skills first and then integration skills 3) provide a framework for students to organize new knowledge 4) manage cognitive overload 5) develop practical universal implementation skills 6) use “writing to learn” to promote deeper understanding Figure 1. Principles for redesigning labs to improve learning. connection between labs. To the extent a connection between labs existed, it was not clearlycommunicated to the students how the laboratory exercises were a path to build skills they wouldneed in their career. As a result, many
to engineering courseat the UA. Prior studies show a positive relationship between interest in a subject and persistencefor science and engineering majors.4,5 Furthermore, lack of commitment to a career inengineering may be key to explaining non-persistence.6 It is not surprising, then, that studentsreported that having a choice of which Elective Unit to study had a positive impact on theirlearning. Four of the six Units clearly increased the number of students strongly interested in thetopic they chose (see Table IV), which suggests reinforcement of the students’ choices and thismay be related to why students also report an increased commitment to engineering (Table II).One very important consideration in offering these Elective Units as
the University of California, Davis. Dr. Brown is a licensed professional civil engineer and has six years of experience designing water and waste water treatment facilities in central California. He was the recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2011. Dr. Brown’s research interests are in conceptual change, epistemology, and social or situated cognition. Specifically, his research focuses on theoretical approaches to understanding why some engineering concepts are harder to learn than others, including the role of language and context in the learning process.Dr. Brian F French, Washington State University Dr. Brian French is an associate professor in Educational Psychology and co-director of the Learning and
Paper ID #5691How Slide Design Affects a Student Presenter’s Understanding of the Con-tentMs. Shannon Marie Aippersbach, Pennsylvania State University Shannon Aippersbach is going into her fourth year majoring in Bioengineering at the Pennsylvania State University. She is originally from Pittsburgh, Pa. After graduation, Aippersbach hopes to pursue a career in the medical device field or research.Mr. Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Michael Alley is an associate professor of engineering communication at Penn State. He is the author of The Craft of Scientific Presentations (Springer, 2013) and
the exit focus groups informed studentexcitement and continued interest in nanotechnology and related course content. Studentsindicated that it would be helpful to have more information on how nanotechnology conceptsrelate to their academic and career goals.B. NANOTECHNOLOGY II: DEVELOPMENT OF AN SEMESTER-LONG HANDS-ONRESEARCH-BASED COURSE: This course was offered for the first time during the Spring2011 semster in the department of Mechancial Engineering. The course was designed to enhance Page 23.690.7student participation in research conducted by NUE faculty members in the area of nanoscienceand nanoengineering. Topics were
, and urban planning and design. He has also been a religious advisor volunteer to several departments of corrections since 1970.Dr. Doreen Kobelo, Florida A&M University/Florida State University Dr. Doreen Kobelo is an assistant professor at Florida A&M University in School of Architecture in their Division of Engineering Technology. Her primary research interest is on traffic operation and safety. Dr. Kobelo is currently working on studying traffic operation and safety in third-world countries in particular Africa and how it affects their economy. She also has been working with minorities in the STEM field and encouraging them to consider transportation ans a potential career. She received her master’s and
feel strongly thatthey are helping the communities and that their experiences could change the type of volunteerwork some students pursue in the future.IntroductionTo be fully prepared for a professional career in the engineering field requires students todevelop different types of skills. According to ABET, engineering baccalaureate graduatesshould possess a set of five “hard” skills and a set of six professional skills3,4,5. The professionalskills, outlined below, are skills that employers desire from engineering professionals.(1) an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams(2) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility(3) an ability to communicate effectively(4) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of
in a simulated job interview. Forthe job interview, each student gave a presentation to the class and discussed why he/she was thebest candidate for the given job. The interviewees used their education, experience, personalcharacteristics to convince the audience that he/she was the best fit for the job. Feedback wasprovided by the instructor and questions were asked by other students. These job preparationskills helped student be more effective at job career fairs, forced them to have updated resumes,and sharpened their oral communication skills.Course Activities (The years 2nd, 3rd, and 4th)For the actual project, the 25 students were divided in 5 teams with 5 students per team. The taskfor each team was to choose a real company that hires
working with environmental sensors and sustainable bioremedi- ation processes. Since joining the University of Toledo in 2008, he have been teaching water resources engineering as well as water supply & treatment courses for both graduate and undergraduate students.Ms. Kimberly Mary Coburn, University of Toledo Ms. Kimberly Coburn has recently completed her Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Toledo. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Toledo in the Summer of 2011 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering and a Minor in Astrophysics. Her academic career contains numerous awards for scholastic achievement, research, and teaching. While completing her undergraduate, Ms
met.Specifically, we asked the following research questions: 1) What did teachers perceive studentslearned through participation in engineering lessons? 2) How did teachers’ perceptions aboutstudent learning differ by grade level? and 3) How did teachers’ perceptions differ by school?Literature ReviewIn a document titled “Engineering for Children?!” 4, engineering is said to integrate multipledisciplines including science and mathematics, foster problem-solving skills, and increasestudents’ awareness of and access to STEM careers like engineering. The American Society ofEngineering Education’s K-12 division agrees that engineering enhances math and sciencelearning while connecting coursework to real-world applications 5. Engineering activities are
summer camp inChattanooga, TN, focused on the kinematics concepts associated with modeling traffic flow.Feedback from the students is helping us enhance the tool capabilities for use in a STEMcurriculum at two high schools in summer and fall, 2014.IntroductionSTEM occupations are projected to grow by 17.0% from 2008 to 2018 in the United States [6].However, there is a growing shortage of students who pursue STEM careers, primarily becausethey seem to develop a lack of interest in STEM topics that may be traced back to unavailabilityof teaching tools and resources that develop STEM concepts in realistic and motivating contextsalong with relevant challenge problems. Often students are not made aware of the link betweenengineering disciplines and
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